Evan Currie > Quotes

“The main difference between a fighter pilot and God is that God doesn't think he was a fighter pilot.”
― Evan C. Currie, Odyssey One

“Warriors are never appreciated in peacetime except by those they saved during the war.”
― Evan C. Currie, Odyssey One

“The difference between courage and stupidity is measured by success and survival.”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“The fun thing about insanity is that it is often so very hard to tell it apart from brilliance.”
― Evan C. Currie, Heirs of Empire

“A soldier’s first duty, his reason for being, is not to fight. Fighting is the final recourse for any civilized people. His duty is not even to preserve the peace; that is a police officer’s job,” Comdr. Stephen Michaels of the NAC military said by rote, remembering the many long nights of arguments and discussions that had brought this to his mind. “A soldier’s first duty is simply to stand between his nation and any who might wish it harm.”
― Evan C. Currie, Into the Black

“Communism worked great, up to maybe four dozen people. Libertarianism was a bit better and could handle thousands before it started to fall apart. Capitalism worked best on scale, but it too began to implode once you moved close to the billion mark or so and began to factor in multiple local governments. Socialism always sucked and tended to work like a glacier moving uphill, but it worked at pretty much every scale in the same way. It was reliable, even if you could only rely on it to piss you off and barely get anything done.”
― Evan C. Currie, By Other Means

“We don't bolt, Ensign ... We advance cautiously to the front and quickly to the rear.”
― Evan C. Currie, Odyssey One

“Doors were both the bane and the blessing of existence. When they worked the way you wanted, when you wanted, you could ask no more of life. Most of the time, however, the evil blasted things were clearly possessed by the devil and intent on nothing but murdering you and your compatriots by stubbornly refusing to open, or close, or whatever it was you needed them to do.”
― Evan C. Currie, King of Thieves

“If we survive this, I'm going to have a very serious talk with the techs back home about what constitutes "need to know.”
― Evan C. Currie, Odyssey One

“If she survived, she’d learn. One of the silver linings of battle, he supposed. Learning time was very much compressed. Much smaller graduating classes, though.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“Let’s not worry about when we go down, Commander. Let’s just worry about what kind of company we keep when we do.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“All right, who prayed for the miracle?” he asked softly. Three guys raised their hands. “You’re all promoted. Nice work.”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“Hell is a state of being, not a physical place.”
― Evan C. Currie, On Silver Wings

“Hannah drew up the ice magic she had been born to wield,”
― Evan Currie, Liberation

“To his mind, if you were going to kill a man you should have the guts and honor to at least accept a degree of risk yourself, no matter how small. Pushing a button and killing people by remote was no way to do things. It made soldiers lazy and careless. The world had politicians for that already. It didn’t need to add soldiers to the list.”
― Evan C. Currie, Out of the Black

“Usually, a country without a strong military would have had its politicians strung up by their entrails long before they managed to create quite this much red tape.”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“Oddly enough, in the very midst of the terror time, Weston found his mind wandering dangerously. He remembered that someone had once said that war was an interminably long stretch of boredom punctuated by seconds of pure terror.”
― Evan C. Currie, Into the Black

“The difference between courage and stupidity is measured only by success and survival,”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“We’ve got jobs to do, and we’re going to get them done. Anyone who thinks otherwise can transfer to the Air Force when we get home. Until then, you’re Marines. By God, act like it.”
― Evan C. Currie, King of Thieves

“It was always better to have friends in low places, often far better, than having them in high places. At least when it came to Sorilla’s line of work. Friends in high places tended to forget your name as soon as things got inconvenient, but she’d been consistently surprised by how loyal thugs and thieves could be in the right circumstances. They might literally stab you in the back, true, but they’d never just forget your name and ignore you in a crisis. Sorilla learned a long time past that she preferred an honest betrayal over a political one.”
― Evan C. Currie, By Other Means

“Freedom. That’s the core of why we do what we do. Peace is a fallacy in itself. Personally, I only know of two forms of peace—peace in death and the peace of slavery.” He snorted in amusement. “And I’m not certain about death.”
― Evan C. Currie, Into the Black

“Erik had long recognized that technology was a tool. Even the tech that created the Drasin. One didn't get angry at a tool. One did not fear a tool. Emotions were reserved for the person handling the tool.”
― Evan Currie, Odysseus Awakening

“there were few things in the world more useless than an empty gun.”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“Censorship was never about morality; it was about fear.”
― Evan Currie, By Other Means

“There are some things in this universe that are better left unknown. Some knowledge changes you. That knowledge exact a terrible toll!”
― Evan C. Currie, Odyssey One

“He’d always wondered what he’d do when victory wasn’t an option.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“Eric stood alone, perched above the battleground as he looked out at the city beyond and tried to remember a time when he wasn’t fighting. He knew that there had been such times. In fact, he knew intellectually that he had spent more time at peace in his life than he had at war. Why then, can I only remember the war?”
― Evan C. Currie, Out of the Black

“Don’t panic. Never panic. Be concerned, yes. Cautious, certainly. Even afraid, if the situation warrants…but never panic. I have too much to do to waste my time like that.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“It is always easier to curse in another language than your own!”
― Evan c. currie, Out of the Black

“Warriors are never appreciated in peacetime, except by those they saved during the war.”
― Evan C. Currie, Into the Black